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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0089218429896
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Alpha Video
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Alpha Video
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 92 minutes
Sales Rank: 58461
Studio: Alpha Video
Theatrical Release Date: May 28, 1961
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Some Orson Welles film should maybe be forgotten
When Orson Welles did not have anything to eat he had to become an actor in films that are hardly worth, at times, mentioning, and yet he tries to do what he can as an actor to save the film. That's typical in this one. The Bible is badly revisited in an episode that is not that particularly thrilling because too much known. The film more or less understands some political questions and sees in the attack of the Philistines against Israel an allusion to the menace against Israel from its Arab neighbors. ... Read More
Rating: - Not so good...
Poorly dubbed and hard to follow. The thing is I recognize some of these guys from other Biblical epics and they're dubbed with their own voices... but they STILL don't quite match. What's up with THAT?
Rating: - Decent, But Not an Epic.
Orson Welles gets the top billing in this 1960 movie adaptation of the classic Biblical story, but Welles doesn't portray either one of the title characters. Instead he portrays (and perhaps fittingly so) Saul, the first King of Israel who disobeyed God so many times and lived with a divided heart. In some ways, Welles' life as the wunderkind of cinema parallels that of the life of King Saul. Whatever the case, it is Welles' performance that makes this 1960s sword-and-sandal-epic-wannabe worth watching. ... Read More
Rating: - Only the names are the same
A bible story like it was never told. All Israel looks like 1960's Italians. And when Goliath (Kronos) first appears they use 60's sci-fi music. I'm not sure but I think King Saul (Orson Welles) mumbles in Italian. The story has slightly changed and So David (Ivica Pajer) gets the girl and congratulations from Old King Saul. His rival (no not Goliath) Abner (Massimo Serato) gets the shaft.
The only real sad part was the scene where poor innocent cutie shepherd girl gets electrocuted.
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Rating:  - VERY DULL! NEEDS TO BE REDEFINED IN A COMTEMPORARY GEORGE LUCAS OR RIDLEY SCOT ASPECT.
I found the sound quality to be very poor quality all through the film. The acting was like Charlie Chaplin in the 1920's. The cast except for Wells, was outrageously comical and not qualified in any form (in my opinion.) for this film. Goliath apeared more zomped then Arnold in the "Terminator".
I would say the entire movie is not even worthy of a full star but that of a half. if you are looking for a more professional cast with provocative, emotional, quintessential, present role, check ... Read More
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